Reasons of Conscience电子书

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Contents

Pretext

Building, Bildung

The Visible Public Sphere

Creating Readers

Normativity—Look It Up!

Grappling with Bioethics

1. A Tale of Two Commissions

Two Ethical Visions

Building an Ethical Imperative—The Ethics Lag

Veilings and Unveilings

New Kanzler, New Kanzleramt

Parliamentary Ethics—The Enquete Kommission

New Ethics—The Nationaler Ethikrat

Looking Back—The Enquete Kommission in History

Looking Around—The EK and the NER

Can the Nationaler Ethikrat Be Ethical?

Ethics Commissions as Saalordner

“This Is Not Bioethics”—“Bioethics Is a Dirty Word”

The Bundestag Comes to Life—Sternstunde des Parlaments

Conclusions

2. Disciplining Disorder

Learning to See the Right Things

Becoming an Ethical Insider

The First Day

Ethics Made Transparent

First Impressions

A Place for Disability

Dienstweg

Du und Sie—More Ways of Creating Insider-ness

Writing Bioethics

Grammar of Democracy

“What Are the Ethical Aspects of Organ Transplantation?”

Translation—The Semi-Legitimate Outsider Attempts to Produce a Legitimate Text

Glossary—Marking Science, Unmarking Law

The Beginning of Life

Conflict of Objectivities

Paper Wars

A Visit to the Media

The Nationaler Ethikrat Goes Public

Karlsruhe—Merging Law and Art

The Last Day of the Commission

Rules, and Rules on Following Rules

Leaving the Field—An Outsider Again

3. Transparent Fictions

Toward an Ethnography of Transparency

Transparency Today

Crafting Citizens through Bildung

Democracy Made Transparent at the German Hygiene Museum

Place—A Pedagogical Training Ground

Participants—Who Are the Citizens?

Process—Education in Citizenship

The Citizens Speak, but Have Not Heard Clearly

Expert Reactions

Conclusions

4. Conscientious Objections

Constitutions of Glass—Transparent, or Merely Fragile?

Constituting Conscience

Kant’s Conscience

Native Theories of Conscience—Kant as Germany’s Moral Gold Standard

Public and Private Reason

Beamte—Delegated Conscience Then and Now

Tortured Conscience

Conscience and Resistance

Conscientious Objectors

Conscientious Abortions

Constraints on Conscience

Conclusions

5. A Failed Experiment

Abwicklung und Aufarbeitung

One Volk, One History?—Writing History Together

Making East Germany Transparent—And Seeing an Unrechtsstaat

Obsessive Transparency

Transparency on Display—The Stasi in Museums

Learning to See Themselves as Victims

How German Was It?

Mauerschützen—Suspending the Rechtsstaat/Erasing East German Conscience

Abortion

East Germany in the Enquete Kommission Recht und Ethik

Bioethics and the East German Public Sphere

Coda—A Very Private Place

6. Stem Cells, Interrupted

Ethical Imports at Last

“No Embryo Shall Die for German Research”

Ethics Becomes Law

Converting Ethics into Reason

Reading the Law

The Cutoff Date—An Unenforceable Line

Prohibited yet Permitted

Ethical German Research

The ZES and the RKI Reconfigure Science and Ethics

Inside the ZES

Jürgen Hescheler

Wolfgang Franz

Conclusion

Reading Borges, Reading Germany

Transparency—Text and Context

Potentialities—Setting Limits as an Ethical Act

Taboo—Dammbruch

Law and Memory—Recht und Unrecht

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index